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WORLD GRAIN ARCHIVE

1986
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milling operation in the Cereals
Division of Dalgety PLC, has
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at Liverpool and at Nafferton, North
Humberside, Yorkshire, England.
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per year and is a pneumatic plant
located in the same port area as
Spillers' Birkenhead mill, which
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tonnes. Thirsk's Mill at Nafferton,
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several years ago, has an annual
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The three mills will be combined
into a new company to operate as
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operations, Dixie-Portland Flour
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recently received the Milling Operative of the Year Award presented
by World Grain's sister publication,
Milling & Baking News, at the annual technical conference of the Association of Operative Millers.
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miller in the United States, will
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grain processing facilities in a
restructuring move.
ConAgra operates 29 mills with
combined daily milling capacity
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plants, a mix plant, two rye mills,

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as other grain and beef processing
facilities worldwide.
Under the restructuring, the
ConAgra durum mill in St. Paul,
Minnesota, U.S., which had a daily
milling capacity of 376 tonnes of
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Juan, Puerto Rico, which had a
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Ground has already been broken
for the new automated mill in Puerto
Rico, with equipment to be supplied
by Bühler, Inc. of Minneapolis,
Minnesota, U.S.
Also part of the restructuring,
ConAgra will sell its interest in
a joint venture with Maple Leaf
Mills of Canada. The joint venture
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capacity of 1,764 tonnes.
In addition, two feed mills in
Portugal and a feed mill in Spain
will be closed, as well as a beef
operation in the U.S. state of Iowa
and three beef processing plants in
Australia.
Henk van de Bunt was recently
elected president of the International
Feed Industry Federation. Van de
Bunt is managing director of the
Netherlands-based Van de Bunt
Feed Co. and also serves as the
president of Victam International,
which stages the world's largest
feed industry exhibition every three
years in Utrecht, Netherlands.

just north of Dallas-Fort Worth.
The milling facility was run by the
Morrison family from 1936 until
1994, with the death of Edward W.
Morrison Jr.
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plant, with its business focused on
its wide range of consumer mix
products. The company owns Morrison Frozen Foods.
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Texas, U.S., Guenther's business also
is oriented toward consumer products
with major food service operations as
well.
In the U.S., the company operates
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mill, which operates as White Lily
Foods Co., has daily milling capacLW\RIFZWVWRQQHV
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Dale W. Tremblay, president and
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and wonderful history of producing
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Steven J. Bresky has been named
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of Seaboard Corp., succeeding
his father, H. Harry Bresky, who
remains chairman of the board.
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recently was senior vice-president
of
international
operations,
becomes the third chief executive
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The business was established in
2006
1921, when Otto Bresky acquired
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C.H. Guenther & Son, the oldest City.
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The company became one of the
announced in July that it acquired ODUJHVW ÀRXU PLOOLQJ FRPSDQLHV LQ
the Morrison Milling Co., Denton, the U.S. and established milling
Texas, U.S.
operations overseas as well. The
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domestic
milling
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